TY - GEN N2 - The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good. DO - 10.4159/9780674969407 DO - doi AB - The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good. T1 - Prophecy without Contempt :Religious Discourse in the Public Square / AU - Kaveny, Cathleen, JF - Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 CN - BL633 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1480472 KW - Christianity and politics KW - Jeremiads KW - Prophecy KW - Rhetoric KW - PHILOSOPHY / Political. SN - 9780674969407 TI - Prophecy without Contempt :Religious Discourse in the Public Square / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674969407 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674969407 ER -